dune series

They call it “sandscreen.” Out in the deserts of Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, where director Denis Villeneuve shot much of Dune, everything is varying shades of beige. To match it,…

Don’t tell Frank Herbert (or the people at Thinx), but he actually came up with a pretty genius pair of menstrual underwear. Back in 1965. Only, well, his was outerwear—and it did a lot more…

Just before his deployment to Iraq in 2003, Ryan Kort spotted a paperback copy of Dune in a bookstore near Fort Riley, Kansas. The 23-year-old second lieutenant was intrigued by the book’s…

Dune, famously, is an unfilmable piece of work. It has four appendices and a glossary of its own gibberish, and its action takes place on two planets, one of which is a desert overrun by…

Everyone talks about the sandworms and the spice, but the coolest thing Frank Herbert invented for Dune—even he seemed to think so—was the stillsuit. Worn by the inhabitants of the desert…

It happened one night, sometime between 2000 and 2005. She swears it happened, but she can’t be more specific about the timing than that.What Summer Burkes does remember is what she saw. She…

Carl von Clausewitz and Frank Herbert both understood the power of schwerpunkt. A 19th-century theorist revered among military geeks the way Paul Brown is revered among football coaches,…